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N. REIZ.

GAME BOARD.

' No.42.9,639. PatentedJune 10,1890.

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NIKOLAUS REIZ, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND THEODOREHOLMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

GAME-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,639, dated June 10,1890.

Application filed October 25, 1889. Serial No. 328,194. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NIKOLAUS REIZ, residing at- Chicago, in the countyof Cook and State of Illinois, and a citizen of the United States, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Game-Boards, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection through one post. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through thesupport for the top when being spun.

This invention relates to games. The object of my invention is toprovide an improved game employing a spinning-top, which I accoinplishas illustrated in the drawings, and as hereinafter described.

That which Iclaim as new will be pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, A represents a board having a wall 13 around itsperiphery. This board A may be made in any'suitable form, therectangular form shown being a very desirable form.

C represents a number of posts secured on the board A in any suitablearrangement, the arrangement shown in Fig. 1 being the best known to me.

D represents a number of balls or marbles placed one on the top of eachpost 0, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

E E represent two supports for the top F while being spun, as shown'inFigs. 1 and 3, one being placed near each end of one side of the wall B.The wall 13' is provided with a hole e at each support E for the passageof the string G, by which the top is spun.

The player winds the string G on the top F and places the top in one ofthe supports E, and, quickly pulling the string G, spins the top F,which will travel around the board A while spinning, and, striking theballs D, will knock them from the posts C, the object of the game beingto knock off the largest possible number of balls D from the posts C. Ifdesired, the posts may be numbered, and the game will then consist inknocking off marbles from particular posts and making the largest amountpossible by adding together the numbers of the posts from which theballs have been knocked. The balls D, which have been knocked off fromthe posts C, will roll about the board and will not interfere with thespinning of the top, while the posts 0, which remain fixed, will causethe top to bound oil? at an angle whenever it strikes them.

Two supports E are employed located at opposite ends of one side of theboard, so that the top may be spun either by the right hand or by theleft, or two tops may be spun at the same time.

I am aware that game-boards have been heretofore used which employ aspinning-top, and I do not claim such construction, broadly; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is e 1. Agame-board having a spinning-top, a series of stationary posts havingtheir upper ends provided with ball-seats and a series of unattachedballs adapted to looselyrest in the ball-seats on the posts and bedetached therefrom to roll on the board by the top striking the posts,whereby the balls will roll and not obstruct the top while spinning,substantially as described.

2. A game consisting of a game-board having one side provided with apair of top-supports and an orifice coincident with each support, aspinning-top adapted to be spun on either support, a series of postssecured immovably on the board and having ball-seats at their upperends, and a series of unattached balls adapted to loosely rest in theball-seats on the posts and be detached therefrom to roll on the boardby the top striking the posts, so that the balls will roll and notobstruct the top while spinning, substantially as described.

NIKOLAUS REIZ. Witnesses:

ALBERT H. ADAMS, HARRY T. JONES.

